DESCRIPTION

The fontglide program reads text from a subprocess and puts it on the
screen using large characters that glide in from the edges, assemble,
then disperse. Alternately, it can simply scroll whole sentences from
right to left.

OPTIONS

fontglide accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-install
Install a private colormap for the window.
-visualvisual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
visual.
-delayusecs
The delay between steps of the animation, in microseconds:
default 10000.
-page With this option, a page full of text will glide in, and
disperse.
-scroll With this option, sentences will scroll by from right to left.
-random The default is to pick randomly between -page and -scroll.
-speedfloat
How fast to animate; 2 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as
fast. Default 1.0.
-lingerfloat
How long to leave the assembled text on the screen in -page
mode; 2 means twice as long, 0.5 means half as long. Default
1.0. (The more words there are on the screen, the longer it
lingers.)
-programsh-command
The command to run to generate the text to display. This
option may be any string acceptable to /bin/sh. The program
will be run at the end of a pipe, and any words that it prints
to stdout will end up on the window. (Whitespace and line
breaks are ignored.) If the program exits, it will be launched
again after we have processed all the text it produced.
Default: xscreensaver-text(1).
-fontstring
The base font pattern to use when loading fonts. The default
is to search for any Latin1 scalable proportional fonts on the
system. Once a base font is selected, it will be loaded in a
random size.
-bwint How thick an outline to draw around the characters. Default 2
pixels.
-trails Leave "vapor trails" behind the moving text. Default off.
-no-db Turn off double-buffering. It may be faster, but will flicker.
-debug Draw some boxes showing character metrics, and print the name
of the current font to stderr.

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.